Sentence examples for complained rather from inspiring English sources

The man with the missing leg complained, rather mildly, about the attack: "If Americans want to come here as tourists, like they used to, we welcome them.

At a dinner party in Azzedine Alaïa's kitchen on Sunday, Mr. West complained rather bitterly to those assembled that he meant for those sausage-casing dresses, the sagging trousers and the swimming jackets dripping with sparkles and strips of fuzzy bits to fit the way that they did, though everyone else seemed to read them as a failure in tailoring.

But at this year's dinner, on Monday, employees will be picketing outside, complaining rather than congratulating.

It complains rather that they are not authorized by statute or that, if purporting to be so authorized, the statute violates the Federal Constitution.

They are more likely to complain rather than request an action, she said, such as saying, "It's cold in here," rather than asking to shut a window or turn up the heat.

On one side are the folks who complain (rather convincingly, mind) that America has far too many guns and not enough measures to keep them out of the wrong hands.

Life is better than it was in the war, and the splurge of foreign aid masks the local economy's plight.But American and European taxpayers should complain rather more.

The ECJ ruling makes allowance for a public-interest defence, but it will mostly make commercial sense for Google and other search engines to take down material as soon as someone complains, rather than to weigh the merits of each case.Watch out for silent encroachmentsThe right to be forgotten would also undermine the internet's great strength.

And so we have writer Matt Ridley once again published in the London Times complaining, "Rather than attack my arguments, my critics like to attack my motives". That's undoubtedly because when an individual keeps repeating the same myths over and over again, people eventually grow tired of debunking those myths and naturally question the motives of the individual who keeps making them.

"So if you and I actually complain, rather than it being just to my friend, or my neighbour or my husband, now that's actually over the whole of the world".

Lest it sound that I am complaining rather too much, let me end this brief section with a word on the unfailing politeness and cooperation of perhaps 99percentt of our associate editors, reviewers, and authors.15 I often ask associate editors to recommend possible reviewers, especially when a paper is on an area geographical or theoretical somewhat removed from my own interests and expertise.